
Birthday:
06-03-1928
Deathday:
07-22-2004 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Pechesky, Proskuriv Okruha, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]
Biography
Kostiantyn Petrovych Stepankov was born on June 3, 1928 in Pechesky, Ukrainian SSR, USSR in family of the priest. He was an actor, appeared in more than fifty films between 1958 and 1999. Known for Yaroslav Mudry (1982), Judenkreis, або Вiчне колесо (1996) and Prikazano vzyat zhivym (1984). He died on July 22, 2004 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Beyond the boundaries of pain
Act like Shtrantsinger
event1989 star_border 6
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The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.
Certified: No Mines
Act like Paul
event1965 star_border 6
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October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
The Tale of Ihor's Campaign
Act like (voice)
event1972 star_border 7
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Prince Ihor is going to confront the enemy army from the Polovtsian Land. The solar eclipse foreshadows the fateful finale of the battle... Epic in content and stylized as Byzantine icons in form, the animation is inspired by Kyiv myths and the masterpiece of ancient Ukrainian lyrics "The Tale of Ihor's Campaign". The film won a special jury prize at the Nyon (Switzerland) festival.
Warm Bread
Act like (voice)
event1973
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This story took place in a village during the war. A horse left by the passing troops rescued all the locals, because it could be used to grind grain and it and to do hard work. Even though it was injured, it helped people by all means. But one boy acted badly, offending the horse and destroying the established order. Will he be able to return everything and be forgiven?
Passion
Act like Ekonom
event1999 star_border 6
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Based on the story of Marko Vovchok "Pavlо Chornokryl". Pavlo Chornokryl, passionate about young beauty Varka, kills his wife Anna for the opportunity to be with her mistress.
Carpathian Gold
Act like Priest
event1991
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West of Ukraine, 1945. According to the intelligence of the First Ukrainian Front, a special detachment led by Hauptmann Hintze entered the Carpathian region in search of gold for the needs of Germany. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the Chekists recruit a forester. Together with the Chekist Olga, they are supposed to be looking for a place to cut down the forest. In fact, Krapivych is tasked with protecting Olga, who is gathering information about the actions of a German group of saboteurs, which she is hiding in a pursuit squad, and looking for gold ...
Gregory, Don't Go to the Village Dances
Act like Khoma
event1978 star_border 10
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Adaptation of the play of the same name by Mykhailo Starytskyi.
Early on Sunday, I dug a potion
event1971
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Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.
And Memory Will Recall in the Sounds...
event1987 star_border 8
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Pages of the life of the Ukrainian composer, folklorist Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (1842-1912), the founder of the national school of composers. His musical stage works (the operas Natalka Poltavka, Taras Bulba, Aeneid, the vocal cycle Music to the Kobzar) laid the foundations of Ukrainian opera art.
Prikazano Vzyat Zhivym
Act like Sector commandant
event1983 star_border 5.8
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Leytenant Astakhov is serving in the border where something serious happens almost every day.
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
Act like Leader of Free Will
event2002 star_border 5.1
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'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.
Tales about Ivan
Act like impoverished count
event1991
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The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.
Miracle in the Land of Oblivion
Act like Sotnyk
event1991 star_border 8
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In a small Ukrainian village Rudivka, where a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region, lived the twins. Local people were considering them being one person. The people had got scared, when one of the brothers was killed. They thought that supernatural forces took the law into their own hands. The thought pushed people to committing the terrible deeds. The guesswork brings serious consequences.
The Secret Train
Act like Otets spasyonnoy devushki
event1993 star_border 0.5
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The story of war veteran Sviatoslav Yavir. He follows the secret train that transports to the Siberia Ukrainian women, including his wife and daughter, repressed by the totalitarian regime.
High Pass
Act like Ilko
event1981 star_border 2
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World War II scattered the Carpathian peasant family of Yaroslava Petrin. She is a dedicated communist, and her husband, son and daughter support OUN-UPA.
Before Dawn
Act like Valentin Nevolin
event1989 star_border 5.3
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Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.
The Hetman's Regalia
event1993 star_border 8
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The film takes place in 1659 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri took power from Hetman Vyhovsky. Supporters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky are trying to help his daughter Olena to save her father's regalia - the symbol of Hetman's power and independence of Ukraine.
Babylon XX
Act like Bubela
event1980 star_border 3.1
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The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
The Stone Soul
event1988 star_border 1
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The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and freedom of its people. And also it is a romantic story about a fatal overwhelming love.
Rhythms of 'Teatralny'
Act like cameo
event1978
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Kiev. The State Institute of theatre of Karpenko-Kary opens its doors and welcomes new students, future artists: directors, actors, cameramen and script writers.
Zakhar Berkut
Act like Tugar Vovk
event1972 star_border 4.9
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This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
Sin
event1991 star_border 4
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At first playfully, and then seriously, the heroine falls in love with her friend's husband, who fights for social justice. Then there will be an arrest, exhausting interrogations of a police officer fascinated by her, involvement in the death of her lover. And that's not all...
Poem of Kovpak: Alarm
Act like Сидор Ковпак
event1974 star_border 5.4
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A first of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm
event1976 star_border 4
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A second of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...
Act like Sidor Kovpak
event1978 star_border 6
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A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Escape from the Palace
event1975
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A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.
The Gadfly
Act like Австрийский полковник
event1980 star_border 4.9
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The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
The Stone Cross
Act like Mykhailo
event1968 star_border 6.3
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In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
Two Moons, Three Suns
event1998 star_border 1
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A prosperous and calm life in an instant explodes into a monstrous event, and nothing will ever be the same again. A terrible bleeding scar remains in the soul forever. One fine day, a young and charming archaeologist Alexei, five minutes later a doctor of science, learns that his sibling was buried alive. And the brother’s killer is alive and left unpunished. Blinded by grief, Alex decides to kill ...
Cherry Nights
event1992
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The love story of the NKVD lieutenant and the connected UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) on the eve of the end of World War II is a conflict of love and duty. There is a third hero in this story - this is an indifferent employee of the NKVD. For many years, he completely voluntarily helps the OUN-UPA, and waits for who will eventually become the winner, to whom, in the end, he will devote the rest of his life ...
The Secret of Genghis Khan
event2002
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1227, the last night of dying Genghis Khan. With promises and threats tyrant tries to persuade captive Otrar physician Akerke, the widow of the scientist, who was killed by Mongol soldiers, to save his life. But patriotic woman does not want to deliver the oppressor of his people and severely exposes his bloody tyranny of power.
Flags on the Towers
event1958
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A drama about educating homeless children based on the book by Anton Makarenko.
Obitnytsia
event1992 star_border 6
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Love triangle revealed during a wedding is set to a backdrop of Ukrainian history and tradition, with questions of honor and faithfulness asked.
Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel
event1996 star_border 6.5
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A completely true story about how a real. live Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center 01 the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d‘etats during the Second World War.
Four sheets of plywood
event1992 star_border 7
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The young, curious journalist Sofia (Olga Sumska) at tragic circumstances meets the investigator Bohdan Mazepa (Ivan Havrylyuk). Soon their paths intersect: Sofia receives the task to write an article about our valorous militia, where that very successful captain having no unsolved cases is to appear as the protagonist. Except for one. What secrets does this case hide and how will fates of Bohdan and Sofia develop, will love be able to survive the frightful truth?
Klymko
event1983
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Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...
Ukrainian Rhapsody
Act like Отто - фашистский солдат
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival
I'm Coming to You...
Act like Jesus Christ
event1970 star_border 6.5
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The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
event1983 star_border 7.7
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A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.
Captain Krokus
event1991 star_border 8
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Appearance of Coco the Clown and Peach the Pig in the circus is always a happy holiday for children and adults in a small town. But the terrible Chuchelische is ready to do whatever it takes for this celebration to not take place and make children's laughter turn to tears. At this time, the city government is in the hands of insidious Kibernator-General, which decides to close the circus, arrest Coco and make a stuffed out of Peach. Two friends, Kid and Slice, with a good and brave Captain Crocus decide to save Coco and Peach and return the children to the circus.
Forget the Word 'Death'
Act like Кикоть
event1979
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1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.
The Commissars
Act like Fedor
event1971 star_border 5.5
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This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.
A Dream
Act like Soshenko
event1964 star_border 5.5
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Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).
The Enticement of Don Juan
Act like De Fosco
event1986
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Based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama "The Stone Master". Without the permission of the king, in Seville, under the pretext of meeting his fiancée Dolores, returns the disgraced Don Juan, a thunderstorm of husbands and grooms. The loveable protagonist gained fame as a ladies man and a wild tempest of female reputations. But for Don Juan there are no barriers to the desired goal. This time he laid eyes on the lovely Donna Anna. Obsessed with a passion for her, the hero protects her ancestral castle from the Portuguese invading the country ...
The Legend of Princess Olga
Act like Voivode Sveneld
event1984 star_border 6.5
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The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.
Yaroslav the Wise
event1982 star_border 4.8
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In the XIth century Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rus') reached its zenith under the reign of Yaroslav. He established enduring ties with many of the ruling European dynasties, strengthened the borders of Rus' and tried to free it from the influence of the Byzantine Empire. Since 988 the church of Rus' had been autonomous, apart from the right of Constantinople to appoint the Metropolitan.
Ashik Kerib
Act like Teacher
event1988 star_border 6.2
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Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.
Viper
event1966 star_border 6
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The dramatic story of the merchant's daughter, who became a brave fighter of the cavalry squadron of the red Army, later could not find herself in a peaceful life
Pavel Korchagin
event1956 star_border 2.2
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A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
A Train to a Distant August
Act like common soldier Rudko
event1971 star_border 6
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A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…
The Whole World In Your Eyes
event1977 star_border 7.5
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After school, Victor is in no hurry to determine their future profession. So far, it works where it is necessary, nothing himself not particularly burdened. Unexpected acquaintance with Vera, a woman injured in a car accident that killed her mother, dramatically changes the life of Victor. And love has arisen between the girl gives the power to decide on the fourth and perhaps decisive step
Annychka
Act like Kmet
event1969 star_border 5.1
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In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young Hutsul girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results.
Blue Lightnings
Act like Ivan Lutsenko
event1978 star_border 6
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Anatoly Ruchyov is quite a talented guy. One day he decides to enter a prestigious Soviet university — the institute of international relations. But, alas, he overestimates his strength and doesn't achieve his goal. This saddens the young man a little, but he doesn't even think to lower his hands. Anatoly decides to go to military service and reach heights in this area. At first, it is a little lost, but, after the time has elapsed, it is mastered, because there is nowhere to go. Slowly he turns into a real exemplary fighter.
Weekday Criminal Investigation
Act like Дмитрий Николаевич Панасюк
event1973 star_border 7.7
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For several months, the investigation into the robbery of the cashier in the village of Airport. Assistants to the chief of criminal investigation department Mironov managed to find the direct traces leading to the thief-the recidivist Panasyuk serving sentence in a colony for small theft.
The Scouts
Act like Miklós
event1968 star_border 4.6
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The Great Patriotic War. 1945 year. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.
At the edge of the sword
event1986
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The plot is based on genuine events: a tendency to abandon subversive activities and surrender of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary underground, coroner general Y. Tyutyunnik. The young Chekist Sashko Kovalchuk infiltrates the Kiev counter-revolutionary underground.
Cossack Outpost
event1982
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Follows the adventures of the Amur Cossack Alexei Butov. As he went to the front in the First World War, so it went.
I'll Be Waiting...
event1980
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Nikita Voronov, a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, was fine: just a year before graduation, athletic success-he is a master of sports in judo, a good family, a beloved girl who agreed to wait a year before getting married. Nikita has a great idea of his future, he is used to winning.
Etudes on Vrubel
Act like Doctor
event1989
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Film about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.
A Long Path on a Short Day
Act like reporter
event1972 star_border 4
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Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...
The Kotsiubynsky family
Act like Symon Petliura
event1970
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The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.
Second Wind
Act like Vasiliy Maksimovich Cheremashko
event1971
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A seriously ill patient is brought to the clinic of a research institute. Young doctor Falko, a resident at the institute, insists on an urgent operation, but his supervisor Druz believes that in this case therapeutic treatment will be more effective and, moreover, will not be associated with risk. Professor Shostenko nevertheless undertakes to operate on the patient. The successfully completed operation confirms the diagnosis made by Falko. Parallel to the events in the clinic, the action unfolds in the house of the director of the institute Shostenko, where his son Igor returns after a three-year absence. The complicated relationship between Igor and his wife, the love story of Shostenko's daughter and Druz - the canvas of the second plot of the film.
The White Bird Marked with Black
Act like Zozulia
event1972 star_border 5.9
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A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and the Ukraine, all within a short span of time. When World War II comes, various family members choose different masters; some even choose to work for the Soviets. War, struggle, marriages, births, deaths--all these events punctuate the story of this large family.
Soldiers
event1978
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Three women who were evacuated during the war are returning to their homeland, carrying with them a heavy chest with spare parts for tractors.
Ostriv lyubovi
(10 ep.)
event1995
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The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.
Battle for Moscow
Act like генерал-майор Панфилов (4 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.2
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The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.
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